Monthly Archives: November 2016

Amazon is bringing the Greengrass IoT service to devices and board computers, meant to help boost offline data collection and analysis.

The goal of Greengrass, an AWS software tool, is to make IoT devices and maker boards smarter. Even underpowered devices collecting data won’t be “dumb” anymore, Amazon says.

Amazon has kept in mind that smart devices can’t always be connected to the cloud for data analysis, and Greengrass brings some AWS software tools to devices to aid in better collection and analysis of data.

Developer boards are strongly tied to cloud services, which add more functionality to smart devices. Data collected from …read more

Amazon is bringing the Greengrass IoT service to devices and board computers, meant to help boost offline data collection and analysis.

The goal of Greengrass, an AWS software tool, is to make IoT devices and maker boards smarter. Even underpowered devices collecting data won’t be “dumb” anymore, Amazon says.

Amazon has kept in mind that smart devices can’t always be connected to the cloud for data analysis, and Greengrass brings some AWS software tools to devices to aid in better collection and analysis of data.

Developer boards are strongly tied to cloud services, which add more functionality to smart devices. Data collected from …read more

Amazon is bringing the Greengrass IoT service to devices and board computers, meant to help boost offline data collection and analysis.

The goal of Greengrass, an AWS software tool, is to make IoT devices and maker boards smarter. Even underpowered devices collecting data won’t be “dumb” anymore, Amazon says.

Amazon has kept in mind that smart devices can’t always be connected to the cloud for data analysis, and Greengrass brings some AWS software tools to devices to aid in better collection and analysis of data.

Developer boards are strongly tied to cloud services, which add more functionality to smart devices. Data collected from …read more

It can be hard moving large amounts of data to the cloud. Even with consistent 10 Gbps of data transfer, it would take years to get hundreds of petabytes from an on-premises data center to a public cloud provider.

Amazon is aiming to speed that process up with a high-capacity data transfer product: A literal truck. The Snowmobile is a big, white semi-trailer that can hold 100PB of data. It will then get driven to an Amazon endpoint, and the data will be loaded into the company’s public cloud storage.

For smaller migrations that can also benefit from processing at …read more

Declara CEO Ramona Pierson has an amazing survival story. But the most interesting chapter is how she’s channeled those lessons into a push to re-invent education. We talked about the disconnect between education and digital careers, and how an AI-powered learning platform can help.

And while it’s always tougher – and riskier — to move big, mission-critical workloads and services, at least IT departments have gotten experience working with the cloud so they’re not going …read more

Amazon’s popular Snowball storage container got a major update today at the company’s re:invent conference. Though largely overshadowed by the new batshit crazy AWS Snowmobile, the aforementioned Snowball will be getting a storage increase to 100 terabytes in addition to computing functionality. Users of the new Snowball Edge will be able to perform basic analysis on their data… Read More …read more